Review: Paul Turner, Piano – Friday 8 November
It is every concert promoter’s worst fear when an artist cancels a concert due to illness – finding replacements at short notice is never easy. Imagine then the problem when the replacement artist also has to cancel. Thus on Friday night the audience arrived to hear, not to the expected song recital, but a complete…
Review: The Craig Ogden Ensemble, A Baroque Journey towards the Goldberg Variations, 17 May 2024
Stockbridge Music continues to enrich our musical lives. The Craig Ogden Ensemble attracted an audience from as far away as Wales for their concert in May. In the first half, David Juritz (violin), Craig Ogden (guitar) and Adrian Bradbury (cello) played a succession of delightful, short baroque pieces from composers across Europe during the 17th…
Review: Morassi Quartet, 3rd March 2023
Stockbridge Music has unearthed a young treasure in the form of the Morassi Quartet. Average age 23, these four talented artists played as one, with an emotional maturity belying their years. We were taken on a tour of the string quartet’s development over three centuries. The concert opened with Haydn’s “fifths” quartet from the 18th…
Harriet Adie – The Harp at Christmas
If the king of instruments is said to be the organ, the harp is surely the queen of the orchestra. Stockbridge Music, ever keen to explore fresh or unusual musical territory to place before its growing corps of connoisseur members, was proud to offer ‘Christmastide’, a solo harp concert performed by Harriet Adie, the accomplished…
Review of David Owen Norris Piano Trio, 23 September 2022
Concert given by The David Owen Norris Piano Trio Friday 23rd September 2022 in St Peter’s Church, Stockbridge The Stockbridge Music faithful eagerly awaited the approaching climax concert of the season: the appearance of our distinguished patron, Professor David Owen Norris. This concert could stand comparison with any top concert hall in the world. The…
Gesualdo Six Concert 22nd October 2021
When you go to a concert you may hope for moments of delight but you do not expect the hairs to stand up on the back of your neck. Yet this is what happened to many of us in this concert by the Gesualdo Six when the voice of the counter-tenor, Guy James, thrilled from…
Duo Bayanello with Andrey Lebedev
In 2015 two young prize-winning musicians, the British cellist Cecilia Bignall and the Russian classical accordionist losif Purits met to form Duo Bayanello, now described as one of the most exciting ensembles in the London chamber music scene. Their mission was not only to combine two instruments as far removed from each other chronologically and…
Index Cantorum – St Peters Church – June 8th 2018
This concert, called Caledonian Connexions, proved full of contrasts, twists and turns. Choral music that intrigued and enlightened at one. Obviously the theme was Scotland – mostly by association. As lndex Cantorum’s founder and director Mark Williams described in the programme, through the evening we’d hear anything from Scottish composers and those inspired by Scotland,…
Concert by the Sansara Consort – St Peter’s Church – 10th November 2017
This is the fourth time Sansara have performed for Stockbridge Music. The choir has grown fast in stature here and abroad, and it’s difficult to avoid endless superlatives about their singing. Here are three prestigious plaudits: the composer Sir James McMillan ‘truly special, a brilliant new choir’; the Observer ‘perfect intonation, clean pure sound, choral…
Concert by the Delmege Quartet – Stockbridge Town Hall – September 16th 2017
They have thrilled us before in the ideal acoustic of Stockbridge Town Hall. Remarkably, three years on, the make-up of this superbly gifted youthful group has seen only one change, the viola player. Remarkable, because by now such very young players might have disbanded their group to forge individual careers. They have to an extent. One of them is…
